What did Karl Marx predict would happen after workers gained control of the means of production?

Karl Marx predicted that after the proletariat seized the means of production, they would establish a transitional socialist state known as the dictatorship of the proletariat.12

During this phase, the working class would rule in its own interest to suppress resistance from the bourgeoisie and dismantle the social relations of production that underpinned the class system. Marx believed that once the threat of a counterrevolution disappeared, the necessity for the state would vanish. Consequently, this interim state would "wither away," ultimately being replaced by a classless society characterized by communism.12

Marx was notably reluctant to provide specific blueprints for this future society, famously stating that it was not his task to "write recipes for the kitchens of the future". He believed that the institutions of a communist society should be designed and determined democratically by the people living within it.2